[dynachrome]

"consulting corporate image experts, to “re-brand” the party."

Yeah, that's the ticket.

[Bahbah]

Be very sceptical of anything you read in The Politico. Very.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Hey lacks-a-clue, you want to solve your money problem?...:

FREE THOSE TWO BORDER AGENTS!!

[mewzilla]

Boehner admits GOP money situation ‘sucks'

Money won't buy ya love, John.

[keepitreal]

Rebrand the party back to the party of Ronald Reagan and I would open my wallet again. But, your branding has to be backed by action, not just platitudes.

[alloysteel]

Rebranding? How about concentrating on cutting off the illegal immigration, and pulling up on the apparent lack of will on the expiring tax cuts? And follow that by a serious effort to cut the “earmarks” to a bare minimum in total funds and number (not that these shenanigans will ever stop completely). But enough so it stays below the radar.

[DaveyB]

People are mad at the president; they are mad at the party.

Spending like a drunken sailer with a stolen credit card, doing everything possible to keep the border open (including imprisoning border agents, feet dragging on the fence and amnesty bill attempts) lack of a conservative party vision, either no response or a gutless response to traitors in congress - gee what's to mad about?

[NonValueAdded]

Damn straight, we have. Individual targeted donations to true conservative candidates and perhaps a few “anybody but the RAT” donations for the general election. But when national throws away our money for RINOs like Specter and Chaffee, forget it. We don’t trust you to do the right thing. Either the Republican Party gets back to conservative fundamentals or it will be replaced.

[SoConPubbie]

Here's several ideas:

1. How about the President admitting he was wrong on the Amnesty issue and committing to shutting the border and real employment enforcement and then really implementing both!
2. How about the President, and the GOP, admitting they were wrong about fiscal matters. And then actually doing something about it. 3. How about forgetting about re-packing the party and going back to first-principles?

There are real simple solutions to this problem and the end result would be a blow-out Republican win in 2008!

It will take some backbone, and you will have to actually promote and implement conservative solutions, however, we all know you can do this if you want too!

[Mariner]

"But so far, no big ideas have emerged".

Gee, how about immigration, taxes, judges and the Jihad?

[caisson71]

The “people” are not as mad at the President as much as they are disgusted with the spineless Republicans in Congress over the past few years.

[bill1952]

>And then [there is] this whole immigration fight. People just turned off the spigot.”

No light bulbs lighting up over your head?

Heres an idea. Why don't you hire some image consultants to “rebrand” the party.
Maybe the democrat party can help with that. - Oh wait - you are already doing that...

Hmmmm. Hey, I know! Why don’t you just get money from those illegals? Yeah, there's your new cash cow.

[Joe Boucher]

I am a Reagan conservative and I will not give a penny to a party running a Rudy the RINO type.
I have not changed, I am a conservative.
The G.O.P seems to have changed,. When in power they acted like damn dems, spending like they had an unlimited budget.
Kissing up to liberals is not my idea of a good thing and I will not support the G.O.P until and unless they revert to conservative values.
Screw the homosexual agenda, big govt, abortion, gun control, AMNESTY.
Send me to a re-education camp like the communists do, seems the way things are going.

[samadams2000]

Our leader in the house goes to tanning parlors. Think about that? Papa said never trust a man that values a good suntan.

[Spiff]

And then [there is] this whole immigration fight. People just turned off the spigot.”

No...really!? I wonder why...

[ConservaTexan]

"...And then [there is] this whole immigration fight. People just turned off the spigot.”

Exactly. I can keep my money and get crappy immigration legislation from the dems for free.

[Socratic]

Whenever GOP fund raisers call I say the same thing, “You’re not getting one red cent from me until the Mexican border fence is fully built.” I then hang up.

[Cicero]

This nails it. NOTHING has disgusted and turned off the base more than Bush’s speech attacking patriotic citizens as bigots for objecting to his unlimited, no-strings-attached amnesty for criminal illegal aliens by overwhelming tens of million.

How dumb can you get? The Democrat base doesn’t support amnesty any more than the conservative base does. The unions hate it. Bernie Sanders voted against it. That’s why Teddy and Nancy wanted it to be known as Bush’s bill—because nobody liked it but the illegals themselves, and the politicians who want their votes.

And Bush would do it again in a New York Minute if he thought he could get away with it.

[donna]

Every time you call for money we say close the borders, deport the illegal aliens, and English only. Nothing has changed.

[upchuck]

Boehner has undertaken a study, consulting corporate image experts, to “re-brand” the party.

Hey John, if you have to resort to that you're really out of the loop.

Try adhering to conservative principles for a change. Bet that spigot would open a little.

RINOS out!

[mad_as_he$$]

Another Rep genius. Hey Bonehead the horses left the barn last summer. Wake up and smell the horse$hit you fell into.